+-----------------------------------------+ | Transcriber’s Keys | | | | A Proportion of those taken ill in the | | Course of this Month. | | | | B Proportion of those who died, in | | relation to the Numbers of the Sick. | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ | | A | B | | DISEASES. | | | | | ONE IN | ONE IN | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ | Fevers | 11 | 19 | | | | | | Fluxes | 20 | 83 | | | | | | Scurvy | 47 | 231 | | | | | | Other Complaints | 37 | 97 | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ | General Proportion | 6 | 39 | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ The proportion of deaths in relation to the whole numbers on board, was one in one hundred and thirty-eight. There was only one in thirty of the sick sent to the hospital in the course of this month. There was an increase both in the numbers and fatality of fevers. This increase was chiefly in that sort of fever which depends on the air and climate, the greater part of which was caught on the watering duty. There was a diminution of those fevers depending on infection, and the foul air of ships, which arose in the French prizes. The care that was taken in purifying these ships was very effectual; for only four died this month in the Ville de Paris, and fewer also were sent to the hospital than in May. The increase of the other kind of fever was chiefly owing to there being a greater number of ships in port, the crews of which were employed in watering, and partly, no doubt, to the increase of heat in the weather. The ships in which the fevers were most fatal were the Monarch, the Duke, the Torbay, and the Resolution. The sickness in the Duke was still in a great measure owing to the same infection that had hitherto prevailed; for this ship had never been cleared of the infectious fever, for want of room at the hospital. That which broke out in the Torbay was also of the low infectious kind, few of them having the symptoms of that which is peculiar to the climate, which prevailed in the other ships. This ship, though formerly very subject to infectious complaints, had been remarkably healthy for some time past; but it would appear that there was a large stock of latent infection, which shewed itself from time to time.